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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
plants. But should you defer setting until 
late in the season., when the plant has 
started new feeding roots, then merely cut off 
the tip ends of the roots, just enough to even 
them up. In setting, spread out the roots 
fan shape, place them straight down in the 
opening, hold the crown of the plant above the 
surface of the soil (see Figure 2). Press the 
soil firmly against the roots and draw the soil 
around the plants 
so that the crown 
will come just 
above the surface. 
(See Figure 3). 
Preventing Pol- 
len Exhaustion. 
— Pinch or cut off 
all fruit stems on 
springTSct plants 
before buds open. 
Never permit a 
plant to bear any 
fruit the same sea- 
son in which it is set, unless you are in a climate 
where strawberries bear in the fall. In such a 
locality spring-set plants may safely be per- 
mitted to bear in the fall. 
Pieure 2 
Cultivation. — Cultivate same day plants are 
set if possible, and follow soon after with hoe 
and loosen the soil around the plant to the 
depth of one inch. Cultivate every eight or 
ten days, and after each rain as soon as soil 
is in condition. When plants start making 
runners, have the cultivator tooth next to 
plants one inch shorter than the other teeth 
to prevent cutting roots. Keep plants free 
from weeds. Don't let runner plants set closer 
than six or eight inches to each other. Each 
plant must have 
ample room in 
which to build up 
its fruit-bud sys- 
tem, and all the 
roots must have 
room in the soil 
from which to 
feed. Keep soil 
around young 
plants loosened 
with a hoe ; never 
allow crust to form 
around the plants. 
System of Grow- 
ing. — If plants are 
grown in hills no 
runners should be Fieures 
Express orders for plants calling for more than 200 plants are packed in crates, and if a dibble is ordered it may be 
packed with the plants. 
